Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew The Boom: Power & Money - Plot & Excerpts
J. J. Lee reviewed the country’s performance when compared with other European states and probed possible reasons for its relative failure. It was published in 1989, the year of the general election that was to feature most heavily a decade later during the tribunals in Dublin Castle. It was written without a knowledge of the relatively huge amounts of money that were swirling round those at the head of Fianna Fáil at a time when emigration was high, population growth low, and optimism about Ireland’s future a scarce commodity. It was also written without the author knowing the extent of the tax evasion that existed in Ireland, with those in the cash economy hiding their money in bogus nonresident accounts in towns and cities throughout the land. A Dáil inquiry would later disclose the extent to which the main banks facilitated, promoted and engaged in this widespread criminality at a time when there was a genuine fear that the International Monetary Fund would have to move into Ireland.
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